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Abstract | ||
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In the domain of literary criticism, many critics practice close reading, annotating by hand while performing a detailed analysis of a single text. Often this process employs the use of external resources to aid analysis. In this article, we present a study and subsequent tool design focused on leveraging a critic’s annotations as implicit interactions for initiating context-specific computational support that automatically searches external resources. We observed 14 poetry critics performing a close reading, revealing a set of cognitive practices supported through free-form annotation that have not previously been discussed in this context. We used guidelines derived from our study to design a tool, Metatation, which uses a pen-and-paper system with a peripheral display to utilize reader annotations as underspecified interactions to augment close reading. By turning paper-based annotations into implicit queries, Metatation provides relevant supplemental information in a just-in-time manner and acts as a bridge between close and distant reading.
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Year | DOI | Venue |
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2017 | 10.1145/3131609 | ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Digital humanities, close reading, distant reading, implicit interaction, ink annotations, pen-based interfaces | Close reading,World Wide Web,Annotation,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Literary criticism,Tool design,Cognition,Multimedia,Poetry | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
24 | 5 | 1073-0516 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
5 | 0.39 | 30 |
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Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Hrim Mehta | 1 | 5 | 0.39 |
| Adam Bradley | 2 | 14 | 1.62 |
| Mark Hancock | 3 | 495 | 31.12 |
| Christopher Collins | 4 | 1037 | 49.74 |